Finner noen en utskrift av dette?
Han var litt utydelig på om spillerinvesteringene skulle fortsette og noe om planene for ER. Så sa han vel at det også foregikk forbedringer på TA? Det er vel å gi bort penger?
Men tillegget var jo bra!
- Looking forward to the season ahead, delighted with the city's response to his arrival.
- Feels we need to be top six, we started and ended badly last season.
- We have increased the quality to add to the fighting spirit.
- Play-offs minimum
- It is a project, we want the Premier League but there is no time limit yet.
- Improved facilities at ER + Thorp Arch - more to come.
- Season Ticket sales - No surprise, knew how much of a fan base we had from our history.
- Very thankful of messages from fans of support, knows his hard work is recognised.
- Feels pressure is positive of the supporters, feels like coaches and players need to embrace that.
- Academy - 12 players signed for 18-23's - Important to focus in the Academy, wants to invest within the UK scouting network, bringing players from Yorkshire and lower division clubs. Working with city council on Academy environment.
- Parachute Payments - Clubs now have 100 million budget, needs to be regulated. Football is more than money, mentions Huddersfield, Reading and Leicester.
- Budget - We have invested just behind the top clubs with our 9 players signed. Championship is a loss making business, due to TV rights etc. Says Football League System needs reviewing as its not financially stable.
- Money in Football - The pricing has gone mad, fans know this as do I but understands there is a market for it.
- Football is much different to normal business - too many owners let heart rule their head and they forget budgets. We will be careful. Investment in the long-term is much more beneficial. We are investing now to help the future. We cannot afford to stay long term in the Championship.
- On TC - Long process of interviews, young emerging coach, very impressed with him, knows his background as player and coach. We have similar ideas on playing style.
- On Elland Road - We are working and investing in the stadium in refreshing and improving the quality of experience for the fans.
- On Communication before he arrived, there was a massive gap between the club and the community/councils. Lots of repairing had to be done, we cannot live without the fans or the city. The city also needs us, mutually beneficial.
- On Cellino - Knew what he was getting into, worked with Cellino as was necessary, worked well to invest in January so he was ready to get moving in May.
Very interesting comments on parachute payments and the TV deal. I think within the next few years there will be some big changes, either the championship will break away from the football league to form a Premier League 2 to get a bigger slice of the cash or teams will start negotiating their own TV deals to scoop up some extra TV money. The current Sky deal with the EFL is absolutely pitiful and there's some very powerful clubs at this level now that could make it happen. The likes of us Villa, Sunderland, Wednesday, Forest, Boro, the Blunts etc are all bigger draws than some of the dross in the prem and should negotiate their own deals. Harvey and co are out of their depth. Hopefully we are in the top division by then anyway but it is something I could see chairmen in this league pushing for very soon.
In the main I agree with that as in the business we've done in an astute sense, seems like we've picked up some real class players at bargain prices, although very early doors so judgement still reserved slightly.
In terms of the first 11 though and in terms of competing at the top would we be saying great transfer window if we'd not had a new owner and C was still in charge - still lacking real quality to replace Bartley and unless Ekuban is a massive surprise we're going to be light up top. 7 million for Taylor, what's our net spend after that, a couple or three million.
Not moaning as spending mega-bucks doesn't do it for me just have a nagging feeling we'll still be a bit short, but then they intimate they kind of know that anyway. Fingers crossed..